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I'd put food addiction under mental health issues which I did say I empathise with, but these are a minority of cases. Not every fat person is food addicted.
It is easy. There's nothing hard about recognising that you're overweight and then looking at the amount of food on your plates and saying "from now on I'll have 20% less than that", then weighing yourself a few months after that to measure your progress and adjusting the amount you eat further if necessary. You do not need a PhD in food science or biology, nor do you need the will power of the most mentally strong human that's ever lived to be able to commit to eating a bit less.
As far as I know, it's a lot more than just a minority, but if you have a source and information I'm not aware of, please share. Always eager to learn.
For the sake of our discussion, let's assume you're right and mental health reasons are just a negligible minority. There's also an obesity pandemic going on right now in most of the (western) world. Has been for a while, I hope we can agree on that.
So, if there's an obesity pandemic going on, but losing weight is simple and easy, and it's not majorly mental health reasons, I gotta ask: Why are people overweight/fat/obese? Do you think people want to be fat? What's your point here?
I think most people want a fit and healthy body, but that many people are not willing to trade cake now, for that nice healthy body that might be a few months or more away.
I'm not really trying to make a point. I'm just saying things how I see them.
Honestly, I think it's not about willingness. There are so many people who try and try and try but relapse over and over again. There's a reason why diets are so popular (even if they don't work long-term). It has become an entire market. Losing weight is not easy, because at the end of it all it is an addiction for most. It has nothing to do with willpower and whatnot. If that was the case, fat people would never achieve anything in life. And yet there are, for example, fat doctors. Studying medicine is hard as fuck and needs a lot of willpower. So what's stopping them if not an addiction? Especially as doctors they know the havoc being obese wreaks. Being obese is not fun at all. If all that was needed was willpower, we wouldn't have a pandemic on our hands.
I know. And I'm challenging your opinion because I truly believe losing weight is simple, but simply not easy.